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shadowfax · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

I am heartily reassured that you confess it.
Shocked

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

shadowfax · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

Okay James.

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

That's Mr. Cagney! Have you no respect for your elders!

shadowfax · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject:

It is a most barbaric assumption (it is this that piques me), quite in addition to an exercise in schoolmam pedantry, to advance accusations against my punctuation without identifying them precisely. Tell me exactly what you are alleging and I will respond. Until then, your chidishness appears malign. Are you trying to say the possessive noun used should be plural??? If so, I suppose you would insist on a masters' degree and not a master's??
It is the queen's presumptions that cause us to cringe through their absurdity. (Or should I say "They are the queen's assumptions...."
This must earn a 24 carat pedant award, as the purest form of pedantry is shown ultimately to be mistaken.
I think the unruly regina is confounding her o level maths with her o level English. Oh, but it were that simple!
By the way, there is no allusion to sports in the metaphor above; the classification is used by Headway, for example.
Your arguments are as illusory and mendacious as your self-perceived likeness to the perfidious giggling Cleopatra. Holofernes the pedant would be a better nom de plume, though he was a male character.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

But, back to the topic at hand, which is an important one. How can one avoid putting all previous employers on one's CV? Most Gulf employers are very focused on any apparent gaps. (So... what WERE you doing for the these two years???) I only had one problem employer where I left and resigned from outside the country by fax. I doubt that I would have received a fair reference from them even though higher management was fully aware of from where the problems arose.

I informed my next employer of the situation and that I would not have a release nor a reference from the previous employer... and had an active work visa from another country in my passport. Their response was pretty much "no problem." Of course, it was a different country.

A trite comment, but often 'honesty is the best policy.'

VS

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

I appologize for the hard comments to Shadowfax; just speaking the truth....

I think if one quits a job or is fired due to negligence on either party's behalf, it seems that the person needs to be upfront as possible with the new employer, but if the person was negligent or quit it's not likely the said person will have a sudden change of moral conduct in truth telling.

VS, what you propose makes the most sense; Look for work in an other country until some time passes before returning to the same country where the problem occurred.